A little more ballast

Jim in rush co · Sep 30, 2016

I made this up a few yrs. ago using MF front weights plus a lot of steel. Added 1/2"x7 flat under it today as I'm going to add 100lb JD weights to the front side between the lift arms.

Geo-TH,In · Sep 30, 2016

I made 6 concrete weights, 75# each. 450# extended all the way back on backhoe will transfer all the weight to rear wheels. My Terramite is only two wheel drive. When I pick up a heavy load of sand in very soft sand my front wheels go down, I get stuck. So my bar bell ballast transfers weight off the front wheels to the rear wheels. If I don't remember to pull the ballast closer to the rear wheels, I get reminded with the front wheels coming up. A little scary the first time it happened. But it stops when the rear bucket hits the ground.

fixerupper · Sep 30, 2016

Looks nice, good workmanship and it's cheap handy traction. The rear ballast on my loader tractor is a 2X2 foot cement weight I made sometime back in the 70's . It hung on the back of the 630 Deere loader tractor for a good many years. I call it my "poor man's front assist". It weighs 1300 pounds according to my neighbor's uncalibrated platform scale. It made quite a bit of difference in traction but another important thing was it made the rear end more stable with all that weight at or below the axle. Now the IH 1086 is the loader tractor but I still use the weight in the winter for pushing show.

D beatty · Oct 1, 2016

I leave the buzz saw on the back of my Farmall B for ballast.

Jim in rush co · Oct 1, 2016

I was wandering what one of the Terramites might weigh? It looks to be about the same size as the small tractor I built about 40 yrs. ago. I think you posted the rear tire size once as 31X 15.5 X15, the same as the GoodYears I used. I have them loaded with cal. The JD has 1200 lb of Rim Guard in rear. The rears on the old Ferguson were loaded before I restored it and I couldn't beleive how much traction was lost.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 1, 2016

They are around 3100#. Don't leave too much of a foot print in lawn. They have enough lighting force to lift rear wheels off the ground.

Using rear ballast behind rear wheels transfers weight off front wheels and puts weight on rear.

Ballast in rear wheels can't transfer weight.

Jim in rush co · Oct 1, 2016

I think I saw A Terramite on a lot at Versallies one day, I didn't have time to stop that day and next time it was not there. There was some kind of foreign made 4X4 at the Power of the Past show that used that tire also.

showcrop · Oct 2, 2016

Do I see a couple of Ford chin weights in there?

Jim in rush co · Oct 3, 2016

No Ford weights, in front of MF is 2 pieces from rubber injection mold, 350lb

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